Tag: insurance fraud investigation
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Who’s the Fraudster in Insurance Fraud?
Insurance fraud is a huge problem and insurance companies have gotten a reputation for being hard to work with on insurance claims. They see a lot of fraud and the red flags that pop up are taken very seriously. is called in by insurance companies when they see red flags. We don’t make decisions on…
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Intuition Speaks Loud and Clear When You Need an Investigator
The staff at would like to remind you of a couple of old sayings. Both are about intuition. One of the sayings goes something like, “If you wonder if you can trust a person, you already know you can’t” and the other is, “If it feels wrong, it usually is.” There are countless ways these…
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Surveillance Equipment Documents Workers Compensation Fraud
Like nearly every other business owner he knew, Lance paid close attention to the bottom line. He felt responsible for employees working in his chain of convenience stores. Many of those employees had been with Lance for more than a decade. In fact, Lance believed his stores were surviving the economic crunch because employees were…
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Insurance Fraud Covers More Than a Falsified Slip and Fall Claim
We have all heard the horror stories about employees who scam the system and cost their employer lots of money by filing false claims and committing workers compensation fraud. But another very real issue involves dishonest business owners who scam coverage providers. And so, when insurance companies contact about insurance fraud, we move swiftly to…
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Is it Pain or is it Workers Compensation Fraud?
When their employee of less than six months claimed that her back was severely injured during a fall at work, Mary and Ted were alarmed. After all, their entire company was built on safety. In more than two decades of being in business, an employee had never been hurt on the job. But soon after…
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Private Investigators Prove Insurance Fraud with Surveillance Video
When Wanda fell on a wet floor at work, she claimed to have suffered multiple injury-related problems. She quickly filed for workers compensation and sued her employer for millions of dollars in damages. Because they had no access to a videotape of Wanda’s slip and fall accident, her employers had no way of proving that…
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Computer Forensics Investigations Reveal Truths – Wanted or Not
Computer forensics is not only used for criminal cases, but for civil cases as well. One illustrative case involved a worker who was placed on unpaid leave and then terminated. He filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging violations of the anti-retaliation provision of the False Claims Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act as…